Hermann Fuwechsel

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Hermann Traugott Louis Fuechsel , also Füchsel or Fuchsel (* August 1833 in Braunschweig , Duchy of Braunschweig , † September 30, 1915 in New York City ), was a German-American landscape painter and lithographer from the Düsseldorf School and the Hudson River School .

Life

Feeding the Chickens by the River , chromolithography
Lake George , chromolithography

Fuwechsel received his first painting lessons from Heinrich Brandes in Braunschweig. In the 1850s he studied in Düsseldorf . He is tangible there as a private student of Carl Friedrich Lessing . In the years 1857/1858 he belonged to the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . During this time, Fuwechsel got to know the painters Albert Bierstadt , Worthington Whittredge and Emanuel Leutze . In 1858 he moved to New York City, where he became a member of the Artists' Fund Society, and opened a studio at 839 Broadway . In 1860 he began to participate in exhibitions at the Boston Athenæum and the American Art Union . From 1861 to 1900 he exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design , as well as the Brooklyn Art Association. In 1882 Fuwechsel moved his studio to the Tenth Street Studio Building, which he kept until his death.

In Fuechel's painterly oeuvre, which is represented in the collections of the Hudson River Museum, the Walker Art Center , the Wadsworth Atheneum , the New-York Historical Society, and the Staten Island Museum , the emphasis is on mountain and water landscapes, which he prefers from from elevated points of view and completed in the studio. In the United States he painted the Hudson River , the White Mountains , Lake George and the Catskills and Adirondacks . As a lithographer, Fuechsel collaborated with the printer and publisher Louis Prang and also reproduced the landscapes of other painters, including Bierstadts. He became one of the most published artists in the United States.

literature

  • George C. Groce, David H. Walace: The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 . Yale University Press, New Haven 1957, p. 245.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1976, Volume IV, p. 550.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430
personal data
SURNAME Fuwechsel, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuwechsel, Hermann Traugott Louis (full name); Füchsel, Hermann; Fuchsel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American landscape painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig , Duchy of Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1915
Place of death New York City